Mario Puzo
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"Mario Gianluigi Puzo" was an Italian American author and screenwriter. He is known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather (novel)/The Godfather (1969), which was later co-adapted into The Godfather/a film by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974.

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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse (The Godfather).